The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-12-08
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Pertinent Items Of Interest - Enplsysss
- Wen - Employees.
An active movement on behalf Of the
workingwomen of New York (said to in
clude 10000 sewing women alone) IL go-
ing on In that city. A woman who 10 Ia.
.eresting herself In It has thus expressed
the reason therefor: It 10 not q pleasant
thing, for example, for o Christian w0-
man to know that the underclothing she
buys IL made by underpaid seamstresses
and sold by overworked shop girla. The
benefits accruing to her from the COM
bined efforts of those two classes Of work.
ers seem to her like Q cheat. Many con-
scientious ladies, therefore, will not make
themselves party to such theft by pur-
chasing articles so made and sold. The
writer lately went to motion counter"
and waited for fifteen or twenty minutes
for the driven-to-death saleswoman to
sell her pair of dress shields-an article
costing from eight to thirty-five cents
per pair. At length, In despair, l re-
marked: "There must be great s.e-
were six or seven other ladies waiting
like myself) "That is not anything"
replied the girl. "In summer often sell
seven dollars worth of dress shields on
a single check" "But of course" I re-
Joined, "at such times yousshave some one
to help you ?" mot at al" was the brief
but comprehensive answer. It is through
such oppression on the part of employers
that the hideous social developments Of
Anarchism become possible. If, then, the
new movement is to be made of any value
to the suffering female workers Of New
York it should be cordially approved and
generously supported by the ladies of the
city. Where practicable they should at
tend the meetings, seek out information
and ponder remedial measures, lest one
day they be called to account as accesso-
ries to the slow murder of those who are
literally laying down their lives that
happier women may live in an ease and
comfort of which they barely know the
names.
The brewers of Boston, who have
been on a strike for the last seven months,
recently threatened to urge the people Of
the State to vote no license unless their
demands were recognized. This induced
the liquor dealers to seek conference
with the master brewers. But the COM
mittee was told that the master brewers
would not submit to outside interference.
This repulse, taken in connection with
the fact that the striking brewers were
vigorously pushing the no-license agita-
president of the State Federation of La
Dor, who has this matter in charge, was
nightly visiting the labor organizations
throughout the State and requesting
them to vote no license at the coming
municipal elections, has induced the retail
liquor dealers of the State to take active
measures to bring about settlement of
the difficulty, and resolutions have been
adopted by the retail dealers, and sent to
Charles G. wilkins, ex-president of the
Federation of Labor, and to the president
of the Brewers Union No. 4, requesting
the New England Brewers Association
to appoint committee of five to meet q
committee of five from the Massachusetts
Liquor Dealers Protective Association,
to consider and determine what may be
done to amicably settle the question now
at issue.
The merciless competition Of modern
trade, and the passion of the women
themselves to get bargains" when they
shop, serve to explain the starvation
wages paid in many branches of manu-
facture. If people will have "cheap"
things, cheap things must be furnished.
And cheap articles mean low wages. But
this does not excuse the wretched accom-
modations, the petty extortions In the
way of fines and docking" the contami-
mating associations and other hard con-
ditions forced upon working girls by
heartless employers. What neither the
chivalry nor justice of men nor the force
of public opinion will do for these women
they propose to try and do for them.
selves. "In union there is strength"
We wish the working girls all success in
organizing for mutual protection.LNeso
York World.
sowing to serious inconvenience hav-
ing been entailed on several British sub
jects on account of their ignorance of
the laws of America regarding the i'm
portation of Aliens" the English home
secretary has issued circular to the
police authorities calling attention to the
recent legislation in the United States
prohibiting the importation of foreigners
publicity possible be given to the pro-
visions of the American law:
The commissioner of the bureau Of
labor statistics in Maine, who has been
making an inquiry into the cost of living
in that State at the present time, as COM
pared with five and ten years ago, de-
uuCcS the COuCluslOu tu6I TIC puTCuoSiuk
power of a dollar In Maine has increased
appreciably within the last decade, and
that as much food can now be bought for
81 as cost 81 IA in 1889 and 81 II in 1877.
The Los Angeles (Cal.) labor unions
send circular complaining that employ
ment agents are overcrowding Southern
California with workmen, in order to
profit by their coming.
A new rubber shoe manufactory, with
ample capital, and to employ I 1000 hands,
is to be built in Naugatuck, Conn. New
York capitalists are back of the enter
prise.
When our people get poor enough to
look after the small things their average
wealth will be largely increased.
Orleans Chronicle.
SUPPRESSION OF INTEMPERANCE.
Heavy Penalties for Drunkenness I'm Bel